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Apr 3, 2015

In the News: 3 April 2015

$1.73 billion VA Hospital, Colorado Springs

Aurora,
Colorado … The US Army Corps of Engineers are taking over
construction management at the new Denver veterans hospital after an
internal investigation discovered that the project is $1 billion over
budget. It is a hospital that should never have been built.
Recommendations for the VA to create a liaison with private sector
hospitals and clinics would be more cost efficient and veteran
patients would not have to travel far to get medical treatment and
medications required. It is another example of inefficiency of a
government bloated with bureaucracy and rift with wasting tax-funded
dollars. I have encouraged the gradual change from VA hospitals to
liaison with private sector hospitals for more than ten years. Yet,
Congress will not listen. Veterans on the average have to travel at
least 40-50 miles to get to a VA hospital in every state. In the
past, the excuse was that medical personnel at VA hospitals and
clinics are trained to address veteran health problems; but that is
absurd. Major city medical staff deal with gunshot wounds regularly,
and psychiatrists in the private sector are completely capable of
treating patients with combat mental stress. The hospital in Colorado
is costing $1.73 billion to build and that cost does not stop because
maintenance will be required.

Salem,
Oregon … An
Oregon Senate committee will hear public testimony this week on a
proposal by gun-control advocates to require a background check any
time someone sells or gives a firearm to another person who isn’t a
relative. The bill requires gun buyers and sellers who aren’t
related to visit a licensed gun dealer that can, for a fee, run a
background check through the Oregon State Police. Oregon law
prohibits giving a gun to minors, felons, people with recent
convictions for violent behavior or those who have been found by a
court to have a mental illness.

Utah
… the state of Utah has approved the firing squad as the method of
carrying out a death sentence. Governor Gary Herbert approved and
signed the law as a backup if the state cannot restock its supply of
lethal injection drugs. It’s
near-impossible to get the lethal drugs: Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, and
the 29 other states where the practice is legal, are finding it
really difficult to restock the lethal injection drugs. Over the past
few years, an acute and mysterious shortage of sodium thiopental, a
key drug in lethal injections, has left states scrambling for
alternative ways to execute prisoners.
It is because sources around the world, and in the US, have been
refusing to supply drugs for lethal injection, most explain it is
because of their negative views of the death penalty and are afraid
their products will be associated with executions providing bad
public relations. So they would rather see the electric chair method
to return or hanging or the firing squad? The argument of the firing
squad is legitimate and logical: Five
precision shooters, hand-picked from a pool of skilled and trained
volunteers, aim their rifles through slots on a wall and target the
prisoner’s chest (because it’s a larger target than the head). If
the shooters hit their mark correctly, the prisoner’s heart
ruptures and causes a relatively quick death from blood loss. Lethal
injections, on the other hand, have been
a hit-and-miss,
with many botched executions still haunting the states. This is
because doctors, who can correctly administer the lethal injections,
refuse to do so as it violates their professional
ethics.
Combine that with states using unreliable and not-thoroughly-tested
drugs, makes a very dangerous combination that has horrible results,
but not a painless death.

Rapid
City, South Dakota
… Several recent grass fires has caused the US Forest Service to
issue a warning to shooters in the woods to be cautious and avoid
causing fires. Lack of rainfall had provided extremely dry conditions
in the Black Hills.

Breitbart.com
… Kroger CFO, Michael
Shlotman
stated the retail food chain will not comply with the demands of Moms
Demand Action for Gun Sense by changing its policy of allowing
permitted conceal-carry customers in their stores. The anti-Second
Amendment group also targeted Harris
Teeter
– but they would not change their gun policy as well. They are
being logical. Every case of mass murder has been at places where
firearms were not allowed – and posted. In addition, they are also
preventing armed robbery. Criminals like hitting easy target areas,
rather than face one or more customers present who are armed. Too bad
other businesses are not practicing logic backed by statistics.

KIMATV.com
… Sarah
Worthington
wrote an article concerning the topic of traveling with a firearm. It
also brought to mind the video of the Patriot Nurse who tells of her
bad experience traveling with firearms – hers was stolen during the
transit process:

I end this article with a delightful bit of humor at a wedding ceremony - Facebook:

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